Ian Small, CEO

Ian Small is Chief Executive Officer at TokBox.  Before joining TokBox, Ian spent six years with Mark Logic Corporation, most recently as General Manager for MarkMail, and previously as Senior Vice President for Products and Engineering, during which time he helped guide the company from initial venture funding through to its leadership position for scalable, high-performance XML databases. During Web 1.0, Ian was the Chief Strategist and Knowledge Officer at marchFirst and USWeb/CKS, a position that followed his earlier role as Chief Technology Officer at CKS Group. Over a five-year period, Ian held a broad executive mandate which included corporate strategy, market positioning, knowledge management and merger integration. Ian started his Silicon Valley career by spending seven years at Apple Computer, where he was a member of the Human Interface Group and led several advanced product and research teams.  In his final role at Apple, Ian was responsible for the engineering management and product release of QuickTime VR.

A holder of nine US patents, Ian has a B.A.Sc. in Engineering Science and an M.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Toronto, enjoys occasionally hitting a two-iron dead straight, and hasn't yet given up trying to train his over-friendly German Shepherd.

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Ron Hose, Founder and CTO

Ron Hose is Founder and Chief Technical Officer at TokBox. Prior to TokBox, Ron spent two years consulting with various startups in the New York City area, and founded another software company. Ron founded TokBox around the principle that video communications should be as easy as possible, and available wherever people want to communicate.

Ron holds BS and MS degrees in Computer Science from Cornell University.

Micky O'Brien, VP of Marketing

Micky is Vice President of Marketing at TokBox and her one woman aim is to make TokBox a household name.  A Consumer Marketer through and through, Micky was most recently the Consumer Marketing Director for Vuze (formerly known as Azureus) responsible for all Brand and Consumer Marketing activities.  Before that, Micky worked for eBay in both the UK and the US in a number of consumer marketing roles, most recently as Head of Global Brand Development, leading brand strategy, brand and marketing education, branded content, brand licensing and merchandising for the eBay brand.  Her passion for brands and consumers was ignited by her early experience working for world-famous brands such as Kellogg's Frosties and Coco Pops and L'Oreal.

Micky has a BA in French and Spanish from Cambridge University, UK, which makes her both the resident Brit on the team and the most linguistically talented.

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Yang Cao, VP of Engineering

Yang is currently Vice President Engineering at TokBox.

Prior to TokBox, Yang was Senior Vice President of Engineering at StarCite, Inc., an On-Demand global meeting marketplace. During his 4-year tenure there, Yang managed all aspects of engineering from technology to people development, and he also led the effort to build the StarCite's Shanghai, China R&D center from scratch to enable business growth.

Prior to StarCite, Yang was the Director, Technology and Architecture of Centrata Inc., a Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers company, providing IT business process management solutions.

Prior to Centrata, Yang held technical leadership positions at various start-ups, such as e-steam and Woosh!

During his early career, Yang was Chief Engineer for Enroute, an innovator in immersive imaging technology. He lead the effort of QuickStitch360, which won the "Innovative Digital Product Award" from the Digital Imaging Association (the only other winner is Adobe Photoshop 5.0).

Yang received his MS degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, and BS in Physics from Beijing University, Beijing, China.

He’s also a good soccer player and loyal fan of Manchester United FC - simply the best of the best.

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Tim Wenzel, VP of Human Resources

Tim Wenzel is VP Human Resources at TokBox, and has been with TokBox since November 2007. Prior to joining TokBox, Tim was VP of HR for Tesla Motors. Before that, Tim spent 7 years at PayPal, where he helped grow the company from 50 people to more than 5,000. Tim was the first recruiter at PayPal; he built a very strong Staffing team and also served as the HR business partner for all of the non-technical groups.

Tim holds an MBA and a BS in Finance from San Jose State University.

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Deidre Caldbeck, VP of Business Development

Deidre Caldbeck is Vice President of Business Development at TokBox.  Prior to joining TokBox, Deidre spent three years at Endeca, a $100M+ enterprise search software company.  Deidre led Endeca's marketing and business development efforts in the media and publishing industry.  Prior to Endeca, Deidre managed AOL's business development activities related to search advertising and search technologies across the AOL, Inc. brands, including the company's relationships with Google, BizRate/Shopzilla, Kayak.com, and SmartBargains.  Deidre also spent three years in the Technology Lending Group at Wells Fargo Bank, where she handled a portfolio of accounts that included Veritas, Interwoven, Synopsys, and McAfee.

Deidre holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, and a BS in Business Administration from the University of San Diego.

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Bain Capital Ventures is the Boston-based venture capital group of Bain Capital, whose affiliates manage over $75 billion of assets. Founded in 1984, Bain Capital and its affiliates have invested in over 300 companies with such notable successes as DoubleClick, Gartner Group, Taleo, ProfitLogic, m-Qube and Staples. Bain Capital's history of investing in early stage companies dates back to 1984, having made over 120 venture-stage investments since inception. Since 2000, the dedicated venture group has focused exclusively on growth investments. Bain Capital Ventures currently has over $1 billion under management and invests in software, wireless, information-services, healthcare, technology-driven business services, retail, internet and consumer businesses. Bain Capital Ventures makes investments across all stages of a company's growth: from providing seed capital through offering late stage growth equity. For more information, please visit www.baincapitalventures.com.

Sequoia Capital provides venture capital funding to founders of startups who want to turn business ideas into companies. As the "Entrepreneurs Behind the Entrepreneurs", Sequoia Capital's Partners have worked with innovators such as Steve Jobs of Apple Computer, Larry Ellison of Oracle, Bob Swanson of Linear Technology, Sandy Lerner and Len Bozack of Cisco Systems, Dan Warmenhoven of Network Appliance, Jerry Yang and David Filo of Yahoo!, Jen-Hsun Huang of nVIDIA, Michael Marks of Flextronics, Larry Page and Sergey Brin of Google, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen of YouTube and Dominic Orr and Keerti Melkote of Aruba Wireless Networks. To learn more about Sequoia Capital visit www.sequoiacap.com.

Youniversity Ventures is an early-stage investment firm formed by Jawed Karim (one of the founders of YouTube), Kevin Hartz (an early investor in PayPal, Friendster, Trulia, and several other successful firms and a multi-time entrepreneur), and Keith Rabois (former EVP at PayPal and early investor in YouTube and LinkedIn).

Lauren is a California girl raised in the North and educated in the South. She graduated from the University of Southern California with a degree in International Relations, and joined the TokBox team soon after. As Chief of TokBox, Lauren keeps everybody on track and everything in order. When she isn't making video calls, Lauren dreams of opening her own bakery shop and taking the world by storm one cookie at a time. 

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Jason “Compnski” Freidman. Jason loves to compute and Jason loves to ski. When he's not skiing, he's computing. When he's not computing, he's skiing. While computing, he cranks out mad PHP scripts. He hails from New York.

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Dr. Kundan Singh brings several unique expertise such as VoIP, peer-to-peer and Flex to our team. He loves watching movies, playing volleyball, painting landscapes and writing software. An artist at heart, he is convinced that writing software is also an art. In his spare time he stares at the computer monitor, and thinks about ways to program at the speed of light!

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Adam is a nomad: born in Melbourne and raised in Singapore, Seoul, and Tokyo. He has a Software Engineering background and has recently discovered his love for ActionScript 3. In his spare time he and his wife like to introduce their 1 year old son to authentic cuisine from around the world. We're hoping he'll stick around for a while before he exhausts the large supply of restaurants in the SF Bay Area.

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Cindy is a Bay Area native but went to the east coast to get a degree in Computer & Systems Engineering and Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is well versed in Java, C#, and JavaScript, and currently spends her days writing cool features in ActionScript. She enjoys cooking, eating good food, photography, snowboarding, and playing with her dog, Coco.

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Formerly employed by the Borg from Redmond and the Incredible Shrinking Yahoo!, Chris has come to wield his design chops on the freshest video tool on the planet. When he's not designing, he can be found playing his guitar, surfing, riding his bike, or playing with his beautiful wife and daughters at the beach.

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Having accomplished what he tasked to do on the right coast, Melih set off to the left coast in search of excitement, adventure, and revolution. His travels finally landed him at the ever innovative, ever dynamic, ever captivating TokBox! At TokBox, Melih hopes to create a platform on which communication is redefined. Melih finished his Masters of Computer Science and Bachelors of Science in Computer Science and Economics from North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC. When not TokBoxing, Melih is searching for the world's best beef brisket barbeque and sweet tea.

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Damon is TokBox's Community Evangelist, with experience at startups called PayPal, SimplyHired & Mint.com. Damon has lived on the Right Coast, the Left Coast, Florida, and has also had the good fortune of living on Phuket Island in Thailand. Damon's favorite place to visit is Thailand, with Hawaii being a very close second, and enjoys taking photographs as a way of relaxing. Other than that, he is still trying to figure out if he has any hidden talents.

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Gaurav worked in EDA industry before joining masters program at Columbia University. At Columbia he worked on an open source VoIP and IM system. When not TokBoxing he explores artsy SF city or listens to his favourite Pink Floyd tracks. His other interests include digging economic history of the world, micro-credit and hiking.

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Jim is a Bay Area transplant from the wilds of ChiTown (that's Chicago to you!) and is a member of the fraternal order of the PayPal Mafia.  When not chained to his desk automating test cases, he enjoys backpacking, world travel and flying around in a Cessna searching for the greatest $100 hamburger.

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Max, hailing mostly from San Francisco, went to Santa Barbara for education and work experience.  With an arsenal of technological knowledge in various subjects from low-level networking protocols to system design and architecture, he is currently responsible for the operational well-being of the TokBox infrastructure.  Now residing in East Bay Area, he spends most of his away-from-work time kayaking, cooking, juggling, unicycling, reading, and vainly trying to convince his two cats, Ziggy and Hal, to not do whatever it is that they're about to do.

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Badri officially holds the distinction of being the first person in the universe to have been hired via "Video Mail".  He moved to TokBox from the Pacific Northwest and loves being a part of the next big communication revolution. Prior to that Badri held engineering positions at Microsoft Corporation and BEA Systems. He holds a Masters Degree in Computer Science from Stanford University. While not TokBoxing, Badri enjoys playing Golf, Squash and trying to hone his swimming skills. He also dabbles in building model planes.

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Mike likes separating signal from noise, creating information, helping the team generate insights, and making killer decisions. He also likes rocking with his band Culann’s Hounds, playing with his boys, and cooking kale.

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Addison Kowalski was born and raised on the Kowalski Enterprise.  After an adventure thru inner space, Addison managed to acquire a skill set in the field of design.  Recently, he designed the Twitter directory WeFollow.com with Kevin Rose (founder of Digg.com)  Outside of the inter-web, you can find him at the happiest place on Earth, Disneyland.

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